Inspiring Minds Job Description
Job Title: Interim Fund Development Manager
Range $45-$55/hr
Status: Non-exempt position. Part-time. 25 hours per week for 16 weeks
*Potential full-time position (opportunity contingent upon funding)
Start/End Date: September 16, 2024, to January 1, 2024
Location: 65 Pavilion Ave. Providence, RI 02905
Reports to: Executive Director
About Us: Inspiring Minds is a non-profit education agency founded in 1963. We are a student-centered organization, ensuring our programs promote positive outcomes for the youth we serve.
Inspiring Minds Mission: Inspiring Minds empowers students to succeed and thrive in school and life by developing trusted relationships with community members who are knowledgeable of the culturally responsive, academic, and socio-emotional needs necessary for student success.
Vision: Inspiring Minds is an antiracist organization committed to closing equity gaps based on race, ethnicity, first language, and economic status that impact RI students and families. We believe in the power of relationships, and that caring and committed adults can empower our students to achieve with the right guidance, training, and support.
Inspiring Minds delivers effective programs that build academic and social-emotional skills using a developmental relationships framework. We serve a diverse population of exceptional, intelligent, and resilient students. We believe all students deserve an educational environment that fosters a sense of belonging and purpose shared with everyone who is part of the school community and the community at large.
We recognize the impact that systematic barriers such as racism, poverty, housing insecurity, and hunger have on learning, especially in under-resourced schools. Therefore, we work in partnership with school districts, higher education institutions, civic groups, and the community to provide quality programs that empower students to succeed and thrive in school and life.
Our goals are ambitious but achievable. We have high expectations for ourselves, our students, and our volunteers. We do whatever it takes to achieve our mission ethically. Our ideal candidate is someone who works hard and will have fun while dreaming big.
Position Overview
The Fund Development Manager (FDM) will manage grant proposals (including grant writing and reports) and development strategies that align with Inspiring Minds’ mission, vision, and commitment to the young people and communities we serve and work with.
The FDM will collaborate with the Executive Director to implement a comprehensive development strategy to cultivate, solicit, and steward individual donors, grants, and foundation funders. The FDM is also responsible for cultivating major gifts of $2,500 plus, grants of $10,000 or more, and prospecting new funding sources and grants.
Essential Duties:
- Collaborate with the Executive Director to design and execute Inspiring Minds’ fund development strategy.
Responsibilities:
- Engage and cultivate new and existing major donors and funders.
- Identify new funding sources and grant prospecting.
- Manage and report on development progress to the Executive Director.
- Track proposals and reports for all funding sources.
- Document practices for the benefit of future staff.
- Ensure timely follow-up with prospective and current donors.
- Lead the development of proposals and donor reports and ensure timely submission.
- Attend staff meetings and report any updates.
- Other duties as assigned by the Executive Director.
Qualifications
- A minimum of 5 years of fund development experience.
- Demonstrated knowledge related to major donors and fundraising.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Experience in using a donor/prospect management system.
- Experience in fund development strategy.
- Creativity, flexibility, sound judgment, and ability to take initiative and work independently.
- Ability to respond adeptly to rapidly changing priorities and to work well under pressure.
- Outstanding organizational skills, including managing work, and moving work from concept to implementation and completion.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, and Word) and donor management systems.
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience required.
- You exemplify our core values of continuous learning, antiracism & equity.
How to apply: Please email your resume and a cover letter to sros@inspiringmindsri.org. Please be sure to include “Fund Development Manager for IM” in the subject line.
The recruitment is open until filled. The priority deadline for applications is September 10, 2024.